With his mischievous verb, his devastating charisma and his spicy lyrics, Serge Gainsbourg has seduced many women. Among them, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin, Françoise Antoinette Pancrazzi or her first wife Elisabeth Levitzky. The latter opened up about their marriage in the documentary Gainsbourg, a lifetime broadcast on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the artist's death, on Friday February 26, 2021 on France 3. The one who took her for her husband in 1951 returned to her many infidelities. "I don't know when he started, but he was hideously unfaithful", she says almost amused. Yet in 2016, she told the local newspaper The Telegram : "My worst memory is when he cheated on me the first time. I grabbed her, the woman and I got her out of bed, then I threw her down the stairs. she didn't break anything. It was the only time in my life that I was violent. "
In the documentary, the singer is heard explaining that it was she who left him as "a lot" other women before. "Because I'm a jerk, as usual. Because I am polygamist", he declares frankly his repeated adulteries. After his divorce from Elisabeth Levitsky, he married Françoise Antoinette Pancrazzi in 1964. From their story are born Natacha and Paul. But then again, the singer's old demons take over. Not supporting the sickly jealousy of his companion… he divorces again. The rest of his love life is tumultuous. After doing Brigitte Bardot her muse and more, he meets Jane Birkin at the end of the 60s on the set of the film Slogan by Pierre Grimblat. Far from having fallen in love with the young Englishwoman, she annoys her.
Serge Gainsbourg, an artist and his muses
Finally, they fall in love and give birth to a certain Charlotte Gainsbourg, in 1971. Tired of Gainsbarre's excesses, Jane Birkin left him in her turn in 1980. Later, he falls under the spell of Caroline von Paulus, alias Bambou, with whom he became Lucien's father for the fourth time, in 1986. Lover of women, artist with many muses, he composed for his friend Catherine Deneuve the mythical God is a Havana smoker. Without forgetting Vanessa Paradis who won the Victoire de la musique for female performer of the year in 1990, notably thanks to the songs Tandem and Tell him that I love him, that he wrote to her. Without forgetting France Gall who came first at Eurovision in 1965 with Wax doll, sound doll which she owes to Serge Gainsbourg. The latter is amused by his naivety by offering him the very erotic song Lollipops with anise.
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